What's the difference between disconnect and switch?

Disconnect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
  • (2) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (3) A pre-operative diagnosis of otosclerosis was made but at tympanotomy, the stapes crura in each ear was found to be disconnected from the footplate, the ossicular chain being otherwise normal.
  • (4) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
  • (5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
  • (6) Nearly three quarters (73%) said if they were disconnected, they would find their ability to use vital commercial services, such as shopping and banking, completely disrupted or fairly harmed.
  • (7) Keep asking questions like that and you’re going to get hung up on, like right now,” he said, then disconnected the line.
  • (8) Frontal hypothalamic deafferentation (FHD), which disconnects the anterior hypothalamus from the preoptic area, stops the twice daily surges of prolactin secretion of pregnancy or pseudopregnancy in the rat, and causes rapid luteolysis.
  • (9) The results of these studies support the contention that anterolateral MBH neural connections may constitute a dynamic neural substrate contributing to a gradual improvement in neuroendocrine function observed after early surgical disconnections.
  • (10) O2 has warned that it will disconnect anyone it discovers doing that, though it would not say how it would identify them.
  • (11) For me, the simple reason is I tried a three-day week and found I struggled to keep on top of work, felt disconnected from my colleagues' rhythm, felt guilty about so much time off, and was so bad at freelancing I ended up working many more hours for less money.
  • (12) The stages of recognition are analysed through this case of visual verbal disconnection and the importance of memory in perception is highlighted.
  • (13) Similarities were increased number of lipid droplets in the cumulus cells, widened peri-vitelline space, peripheral displacement or breakdown of the oocyte nucleus and disconnection of the junctions between cumulus cell projections and the oolemma.
  • (14) Attempts to estimate mean skin temperature for subjects during prolonged experiments in field conditions are often made difficult because probes become disconnected or cease to function.
  • (15) Where are Cisco and other companies whose equipment is used to connect the net and by some governments to disconnect it?
  • (16) The emergency operation which has effectively achieved the stopping of the esophageal bleeding has been the porto-azygos disconnection, which allows later a portosystemic shunt with a greater probability of success.
  • (17) Surgery, performed under cardio-pulmonary bypass after epicardial mapping, consisted in atrioventricular disconnection using no special physical agent.
  • (18) Hypoemotionality was found only for visual stimuli, since auditory and tactile modalities were totally spared, suggesting a visual-limbic disconnection mechanism.
  • (19) In the first case the exhaust system intentionally had been disconnected.
  • (20) Forced removals and dumping of millions of people into small, disconnected, barren, poor reserve areas, bereft of adequate medical, psychiatric and public health services (the 'final solution' of the 'native problem') causes widespread malnutrition, infectious and other diseases, and high mortality and mental-illness rates.

Switch


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.
  • (n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
  • (n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
  • (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
  • (v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
  • (v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
  • (v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.
  • (v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
  • (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.
  • (v. i.) To walk with a jerk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We also demonstrated a significant difference in the Hb switching process between male and female newborns.
  • (2) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
  • (3) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
  • (4) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (5) It is hypothesized, furthermore, that the kinetics of emergence and loss of these various populations may reflect switching in the mode of immunity being expressed, particularly during the chronic phase of the infection, from that of a state of active immunity to one of immunologic memory.
  • (6) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
  • (7) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
  • (8) Our aim is to obtain evidence for trans-acting factors that regulate developmental hemoglobin (Hb) switching.
  • (9) Should such symptoms occur, the doctor has the choice of either switching to another first-step compound or reducing the dose of the first agent and combining it with one of other available drugs.
  • (10) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
  • (11) This modification improves the convergence properties of the network and is used to control a switch which activates the learning or template formation process when the input is "unknown".
  • (12) Usage of analyzing cardiac monitors with a signalling system switched on by the preset values of ST-segment depression prevented the evolution of myocardial ischemia and the development of exercise-induced anginal episodes.
  • (13) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
  • (14) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
  • (15) In hybrids before the switch, the gamma-genes are unmethylated.
  • (16) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
  • (17) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
  • (18) The swi1+ gene is necessary for effective mating-type (MT) switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
  • (19) Consequently mother cells can switch their mating type whereas bud cells cannot.
  • (20) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.